GCN Circular 21698

Subject

LIGO/Virgo G299232: COINCIDENT IceCube neutrino observation UPDATE

Event

Date

2017-08-25T15:52:28Z (9 years ago)

From

Stefan Countryman at LIGO Scientific Collaboration <stefan.countryman@ligo.org>

I. Bartos, S. Countryman (Columbia), C. Finley (U Stockholm), E. Blaufuss (U Maryland), R. Corley, Z. Marka, S. Marka (Columbia) on behalf of the IceCube Collaboration

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  we reported the identification of an IceCube neutrino candidate that is temporally (within [-500s,500s]) and directionally (within 90% CL) coincident with LIGO/Virgo G298048.

We reran our analysis using the updated three-detector skymap, bayestar-HLV.fits.gz. The same neutrino candidate is still COINCIDENT with the updated map. The properties of the neutrino candidate are below:


#            dt[s]     RA[deg]    Dec[deg]      E[TeV]  Sigma[deg]
------------------------------------------------------------------
1.         -233.82        28.2        44.8        0.39         3.8

(dt--time from GW in [seconds]; RA/Dec--sky location in [degrees]; E--reconstructed secondary muon energy in [TeV]; Sigma--uncertainty of direction reconstruction in [degrees])

A coincident neutrino-GW skymap has been posted to GraceDB (<https://gracedb.ligo.org/apiweb/events/G299232/files/coinc_skymap_initial_icecube.png,1>). A JSON-formatted list of the neutrinos used can be downloaded from GraceDB at: <https://gracedb.ligo.org/apiweb/events/G299232/files/IceCubeNeutrinoList.json,1>